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People, places and business cultures : essays in honour of Francesca Carnevali /
This collection brings together new research into nineteenth- and twentieth-century British and European economic history, socio-cultural history and business history. It is inspired by the work and legacy of Francesca Carnevali who, throughout her career, encouraged a lively dialogue between these...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , , , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, Suffolk :
The Boydell Press is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd,
2017.
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| Series: | People, markets, goods ;
v. 9. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Frontcover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Acknowledgements; PART I. INTRODUCTION; Editors' Introduction: Economic History 'As If People Mattered'; Politics, Society, and Culture in the World of Production: Some Reflections on Francesca Carnevali's Legacy; PART II. BETWEEN ECONOMICS AND CULTURE: EXPLAINING BUSINESS PRACTICES IN THEIR HISTORICAL CONTEXT; 1. Custom and Spectacle: The Public Staging of Business Life; 2. The Political Economy of Financing Italian Small Businesses, 1950-1990s
- 3. Banks and Business Finance in Britain Before 1914: A Comparative Evaluation4. Large-Scale Retailing, Mass-Market Strategies and the Blurring of Class Demarcations in Interwar Britain; 5. 'Made in England': Making and Selling the Piano, 1851-1914; PART III. MAKING PEOPLE MATTER: EMERGING APPROACHES IN ECONOMIC HISTORY; 6. Twentieth-Century British History: Perspectives, Trajectories and Some Thoughts on a Revised Textbook; 7. From Social Capital to Social Assemblage; 8. Economic History and Microhistory; 9. Europe's Difference and Comparative History: Searching for European Capitalism
- PART IV. CONCLUSIONSEditors' Conclusion; Appendix: Francesca Carnevali
- Full List of Publications; Bibliography; Index; Tabula in Memoriam